Peter Richard Kenrick

Peter Richard Kenrick (17 August 1806-4 March 1896) was the Archbishop of St. Louis from 1843 to 1895, succeeding Joseph Rosati and preceding John Joseph Kain.

Biography
Peter Richard Kenrick was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland in 1806, the brother of Bishop of Philadelphia Francis Kenrick, and he was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1832. In 1843, he became Archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri in the United States, and he condemned the actions of the Catholic labor union Knights of Labor, and Pope Leo XIII deposed him as Archbishop in 1895 after he fell ill. He died in 1896 at the age of 89.